Documentary Led by HonorHealth Research Institute Focuses on Injuries to Doctors and Nurses Working in Cardiology
May 7, 2024 — HonorHealth Research Institute’s David G. Rizik, M.D., narrates and is a co-producer of a documentary focused on radiation and orthopedic injuries suffered by doctors and nurses who work in cardiac catheterization laboratories where they apply the very latest non-surgical technologies to treat the world’s leading cause of death, heart disease. The premier of a two-hour, six-part version of Scattered Denial: The Occupational Dangers of Radiation will stream beginning Sunday, April 28, on www.ScatteredDenial.org, preceding a one-hour version that will air nationally in July on PBS. “The ‘scatter’ is radiation scatter, and ‘denial’ is how we’ve denied that this was happening until it was too late,” said Dr. Rizik, research director of the Cardiovascular Research Division at HonorHealth Research Institute, the world’s leader in studies tracing the dangers of occupational radiation exposure among medical professionals, and how they can be protected by a new class of radiation